Ellingwood's Therapeutist, 1908.

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Editor: Finley Ellingwood M.D. - Vol. 2, 1908.

Started by Ellingwood in 1907, the Therapeutist, unlike other major Eclectic journals, suffered a bit from hero worship. Ellingwood was a near mythic clinician, particularly in the field of ob/gyn, and it seems that most docs subscribed initially just to read Finley rant and cajol. It wasn't until the middle of the second year that the publication matured into what Ellingwood really wanted - a physician's free-for-all with the Good Doc moderating. In effect, "alt.eclecticmed.moderated".

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January 1908

Leading Articles.

The Tissue Remedies - W. E. Kinnett, M. D.

Cactus Grandiflorus - Finley Ellingwood, M. D.

Interesting Clinics - F. A. Pineles-Montagu, M. D. (Pancreatitis, Leucocythemia, Echinacea in septicaemia, Syphilis in infancy)

Brief Contributed Articles.

Erysipelas Migrans - E. A. Davidson, M.D.

Sodium Hyposulphite in Smallpox - C. B. Dean, M. D.

Uterine Irrigation in Menorrhagia - C. Woodward, M. D.

Lycopodium - F. C. Harrison, M. D.

Injection Anesthesia and Its Critics - G. H. Candler, M. D.

Nasal Catarrh - A. Z. Caple, M. D. (Echinacea, Stillingia)

Pulsatilla

Average lifetime

Therapeutic Facts - Single Truths from many Doctors and many Truths for each Doctor.

Specific Symptoms (santonin in watery cholera)

Sore Nipples and Mastitis

Tonsillitis

Catarrh

To Prevent Subinvolution

Passive Hemorrhages (Atropin)

Hamamelis in Hemorrhage

Three Facts (Silybum for varicose veins, Ammonium chloride for poison ivy, zinc oxide for soft corn)

Quinin in Rhus Poisoning

Leucocytosis in Cancer

Nasal Hemorrhage

Misc: Charcoal as an antidote - Writer's cramp - Warts

Letters

Gangrene and Echinacea - C. S. Whitford, M. D.

Rubus Odoratus - G. S. Farquhar, M. D.

Heterogenous Prescriptions - H. H. Morgan, M. D.

Epilepsy

Editorials

The Fact

First Principles

A General Eclecticism

Independence

Constitutional Symptoms in Surgical Cases

Geranium

To Prevent Pneumonia (Oil of Turpentine)

Treatment of Alcoholics

Gonorrhea

An Early Diagnosis

Cactus on the Heart of the Aged

Geranium in Cirrhosis

Epsom Salts as an Anesthetic

Leonurus

Direct remedies (Corydalis, Calendula, Viburnum prunifolium)

Gleanings from the Medical Summary

Books

Location

February 1908

Leading articles.

A Comparison of the Facts involved in Inflammation of the Kidneys - Finley Ellingwood, M. D.

The Visual Inch as an Index to Systemic Conditions - W. W. Walker, A. M., M. D. (eye disorders)

Treatment of Pneumonia - T. Jensen, M. D.

Echinacea - Finley Ellingwood, M.D. (a continuation of his comment to the previous article)

Brief Contributed Articles.

Echinacea in Femoral Abscess - J. Harrison Perry, M. D.

The use of Clay in Digestive Disturbances - C. D. Isenberg, M. D.

Mercury - J. W. Chase, M. D.

Crataegus in Cardiac Asthma - George Osborne, M. D.

Cantharides in the Treatment of Fistula - David Wark, M. D.

Therapeutic Facts. - Single Truths from many Doctors and many Truths for each Doctor.

Iris in Psoriasis

Calcaria Fluorica

Thuja in Dysmenorrhea (and incontinence)

Whooping Cough - Croup

Echinacea in Erysipelas and in Lockjaw

Asthmatic Bronchorrhea (agrimony)

Veratrum in Puerperal Convulsions

Dribbling of Urine (santonin)

Rhus Poisoning (quinin)

Sciatica (apocynum) Sore Nipples (tinct. of benzoin)

Crataegus in Angina Pectoris

Passiflora in Insomnia

Tela Areneae (spider's web for chill)

Boric Acid in Polyuria (diabetes)

Vomiting in Pregnancy (gelsemium; rhubarb and potash)

Increase of Temperature due to Cactus

Prevent a cold (formalin)

Letters.

Reform Measures in Germany

Constitutional Treatment for Gonorrhea

Misc (ear plug; hernia; ganglia)

Choice Gleanings.

Treatment of Sciatica, by Enteroclysis at High Temperature

Pyometra in Cancer of the Uterus

Calcarea Phosphorica

A Study of Ergot

Diagnosis of Shock

Editorials.

The Real Object

The Effects of Doubt

The Rational Influence of Hot Applications

Suggestions in Pneumonia

A Cancer Symposium

Absence of the Parietal Bone

Lumbago

Syphilitic Throat

Long Waist and Movable Kidney

Coccygodynia

Mistletoe in Hemorrhage

Vinegar as an Antidote to Carbolic Acid

Cystitis in Infants

Mullein Oil in Deafness

Treatment of Diabetes (cayenne, saw palmetto, grindelia, chimaphila)

Sunstroke

Iodin (in oil) Cold to the Spine (reduce fever)

Chronic Rhinitis (ech, thuja, stillingia)

Echinacea for Superficial Gangrene

Gravitation in Septic Peritonitis

The National Association

Misc. (digitalis; location; seasickness)

March 1908

Leading Articles

The Tissue Remedies - W. E. Kinnett, M. D.

Pain as a Factor in Diagnosis - C. C. Thomas, M. D.

Suggestions in the Treatment of Diabetes - Finley Ellingwood, M. D.

A Case of Typhoid Fever - T. E. Smith, M. D.

Misc. (hemorrhoids: collinsonia, hamamelis; ad)

Brief Contributed Articles

Spigelia Marilandica (cholera infantum) Smallpox - D. E. Ruff, M. D.

Therapeutic Notes - B. S. Horne, M. D.

Determining the Cause - Daniel G. Lass, M. D.

Therapeutic Facts for the Puerperal State - J. A. Burnett, M. D.

Populus Tremuloides - John Fearn, M. D.

Therapeutic Facts

Hiccough (tinct of belladonna) Gelsemium (emmenagogue, neuralgia, restlessness, etc.)

Epithelioma; Burns; Dandruff

Iodoform

Nitrous Ether in Rhus Poisoning

Iodine in Malaria

Magnesium Sulphate

Removal of Tape Worm

Cocculus Indicus in Sea Sickness

Rhus. Tox. in Night Terrors (santonin)

A Valuable Diuretic

Injury to the Internal Ear from Gargles

Phlebitis

Night Sweats (camphor)

Removal of Warts (magnesium sulphate)

Calendula in Swellings

A Remedy for Asthma (wild celery seed)

Baptisia in Sore Throat

Cholera Morbus

Echinacea Locally

Clinics

Specific Indications and Specific Treatment of Typhoid

Treatment of the Bubonic Plague

Granulated Wounds Treated with Sunlight

Acute Pancreatitis

Significance of Tubercle Bacilli in the Feces

Editorials

Conspicuous Incredulity

Blood Pressure

Shrewd Advertising

Vaginal Varicosis (collinsonia, hamamelis)

Assistance in Slow Labors

A New Diagnostic Point in Appendicitis

Hemorrhage into the Conjunctivae

Urinary Irritation (irritable bladder)

Treatment of the Nipples

Olive Oil in Gastric Troubles

Thuja (hemorrhoids)

Polygonum

Some Specific Remedies (Fraxinus americanus, Iris versicolor, Catalpa, Lupulin)

Miscellaneous

Convallaria

Used in Miscarriage - Just What Was Wanted

Bromide Insurance

Location

April 1908

Leading Articles

The Tissue Remedies - W. E. Kinnett, M. D.

Some Cases of Interest and Value - A. C. Hewett, M. D. (bruised face, charcoal in food poisoning, ech for poison ivy)

Summer Diarrheas of Children - Blanch Bolton, M. D.

Water in Pediatrics - John Fearn, M. D.

Obscure Pathology - G. W. Macy, M. D.

Brief contributed articles

Mangifera; Oenanthe - Percy F. Lisk, M. D.

A Good Place for Chionanthus - John Fearn, M. D. (diabetes)

The Specific and General Action of Iris - F. J. Norton, M. D.

Pneumonia - Horace R. Powell, M. D.

Therapeutic facts

Quick Restoration of Consciousness

Nux Vomica (no bowel control)

Oleum Hedeoma in Mastitis

Hemophilia and Vicarious Menstruation

Specific Sedatives (gelseminine)

Prolapsus Ani - Hydrocele - Subinvolution (thuja)

Prolapsus of the Rectum

Balsam of Peru on Fissured Nipples

Echinacea - Ergot Hypodermically

Pneumonia

Echinacea in Gonorrhea

Persistent Vomiting

Syphilis

To Disguise the Taste of Magnesium Sulphate (ginger, cardamom)

Puerperal Convulsions

Stone Bruise

A Dysentery Formula

Tonsillitis - Rigid Os (lobelia)

Chelidonium in Simple Jaundice

Some Notes on Thuja

Mastitis in Childhood

Aconitine Poisoning

Pambotano and Echinacea (septicemia)

Editorials

Permanent Knowledge

Professional Ignorance

Cactus in Raynaud's Disease

A Precise Study of Indications

Epidemic Conditions and Epidemic Remedies

The Study of a Few Typical Remedies (request for 30 remedies)

Insomnia

Further Suggestions for the Use of Cactus

Independent Thought and Action

Indications for Staphisagria

The Eclectic Medical Journal

Phlegmonous Gastritis

Rumex Crispus

Two Good Suggestions (epsom salts for arthritis)

Direct Practical Suggestions (Specific indications for Chionanthus, Elaterium, Collinsonia, Lobelia, Gelsemium, Plantago, Opium, Morphin, Turpentine, Geranium, Santonin, Hydrastis, Ignatia, Capsella, Viburnum prunifolium)

Migraine

Miscellaneous

Illinois Eclectic Medical Society, misc other

Books

Location

Eclectic Business

National Eclectic Medical Association

National Association Bulletin for April

For the Cause

Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association for 1907

A New Eclectic Journal

Ads

May 1908

Leading articles

Injuries of the Ear Drum - W. S. Carter, M. D.

Papaw - Finley Ellingwood, M. D.

Phosphorus Depravation - C. M. Thompson, M. D.

Some Items about Fluids Before and after Meals - C. D. R. Kirk, M. D.

Some Unusual Remedies (cynara, phyllocactus, symphoricarpus, black noble palm, jatropha, cladonia, cradina, coronilla, blatta, celery, baccharis, calliandra, aristolochia, silybum)

Children's Disorders - F. A. Pineles-Montagu, M. D.

Brief Contributed Articles

Dioscorea in the Prevention of Abortion - John Cupell, M. D.

Arctium Lappa (Burdock) - John Fearn, M. D.

Carcinoma of the Cervix Uteri - M. Kirby, M. D. (thuja)

Uterovaginal Catarrh - C. E. Brandenburg, M. D.

A Case of Diabetes - N. M. Dewees, M. D.

Hemorrhoids - Menorrhagia - Gustave E. Henschen, M. D.

Varicose Ulcers - A. L. Clark, A. M., M. D.

Letters

To Secure Immunity from Crime

Request for Cure for Epilepsy

Therapeutic Facts

Suggestions for Facts

Spider Poisoning

Strychnin Poisoning

Baptisia During Labor

Chronic Cystitis (cantharides)

Typhoid Fever (gelsemium)

Dysmenorrhea

Several Good Suggestions

Diabetes Mellitus

Croup (comp. liniment of stillingia)

Sprains (tinc. of camphor)

Bronchial Coughs

Prostatic Hypertrophy (request for remedies)

Treatment of Cancer

Editorials

The Passing of Therapeutic Nihilism

Against the Germ Theory

Emergency remedies

Gastric Ulcer (geranium, hydrastis)

Some Straight Suggestions (smallpox pitting, spermatorrhea, ringworm, chronic albuminuria, lumbago, diarrhea, uterine disease, carcinoma, palpitation, biliary colic, locomotor ataxia, varicose ulcers, chorea, cough, pain from uterine cancers)

Piscidia Erythrina

Staphisagria

Electricity in Catarrh

Delirium Tremens

Care in Bright's Disease

Arsenite of Copper

Rice as a Food

The Ethereal Tincture of the Perchloride of Iron (bright's disease)

Apocynum and Exophthalmic Goitre (and irregular or too frequent menses)

Miscellaneous Items

Headache from Local Disorders

Formaldehyde in Alopecia Areata

Hemorrhage in Bright's Disease

Pathology of Diabetes

Inula

Books

Help for Alopecia?

Items, Specific

The National Eclectic Medical Association

Appendicitis

Kidney diseases and Albuminuria

Impotent Criticism

Important Notice, Adrenalin in hemorrhages, Illinois meeting

June 1908

Leading articles

Influenza: Complications of the Nervous System, with Treatment - William G. Stearns, M. D.

Phlebitis - Finley Ellingwood, M. D.

Puerperal Eclampsia - H. S. Lowrance, M. D.

Relapsing Typhoid - C. Weston Edwards, M. D.

A Classification of Bright's Disease

Letters

The Dual Action of Drugs

Suggestions and Criticisms

Bright's Disease

Solar Dermatitis

Turpentine in Hepatic Disorders

Alcohol in Carbolic Acid Poisoning

Suggestions in the Cultivation of Timber

Therapeutic Facts

Urinary Irritation; Chordee

Facial Neuralgia; Chordee

Leonurus as a Heart Tonic

An Improvised Plastic Dressing: Oleum Ricini et Bolus Alba

Cold Feet

Tibial Ulcers

A Case for Diagnosis and Treatment

Treatment of Wounds

Chelidonium

Choice Gleanings

Successful Treatment of Gallstones Without Resort to Surgery

Hemorrhage from Varicose Veins of the Vagina in Pregnancy

Drowning

Editorials

More About the Single Remedy

The Eclectic Materia Medica

Bromatoxismus

Cold as a Cause of Disease

Bier's Artificial Hyperemia as a Cure for Local Inflammation

Straight Shots from the Illinois Meeting (injected lobelia; saw palmetto; ...)

Dry Cupping

Progressive Muscular Atrophy

Osteomalacia

Delayed Labor

Book Reviews

Miscellaneous

Post-Operative Care of Mammary Cancer

Examinations in Materia Medica

Macrotys in Chorea (Cimicifuga racemosa)

Proof of the Unmistakable Non Identity and the Comparative Potency of Hyoscine and Scopolamine

The Illinois State Eclectic Medical Society

Ohio Eclectic Medical Society

National Eclectic Medical Association

National Association Bulletin for June

Good Faith with the Medical Profession

A comparison of the well known forms of Kidney Disease (chart)

July 1908

August 1908

Leading Articles

Mitchella Repens as a Parturient - C. E. Quigg

The Single Remedy - W. L. Leister

Headaches - Finley Ellingwood

A Case of Epilepsy - A. G. Vance

Nonsurgical Treatment of Gall Stones - W. E. Kinnett

Hot Oil Enemata - M. S. Wing

The Honey Bee Sting for Rheumatism - W. W. Houser

A Specific Occipital Headache - H. F. Zink

The Indications for Digitalis in Pneumonia - Dr. Glenn

Infantile Diarrhea - Millard Decker

The Uses of Cimicifuga - C. A. West

Therapeutic Facts

Belladonna for Phlebitis

Exophtalmic Goitre; Epistaxis

Scabies

Trypsin Treatment of Cancer

Formalin in Cancer

Ingrowing Toe Nails

A Sedative Lotion

Lithemic Headache; Urticaria

Prostatic Catarrh

Snake Bite

Medical Treatment of Gall Stones

Quassia for Pin Worms

A Sedative

Epson Salts and Iron in Dropsy

Earache

Cupric Arsenite in Diarrhea

Injection Anesthesia in Obstetrics

Chionanthus

Letters

Alopecia

Prostatic Sexual Perversion

Choice Gleanings

Acute Nephritis

The House Fly

Fibroids in Pregnancy

Dysmenorrhea in Girls

The Exclusion of Fat from the Diet

Cystitis in Women

Electricity for Constipation

Anesthesia, General and Local

High Temperatures with Recovery

Editorials

Every Man's Duty

A Defense of Therapeutic Methods

The National Meeting

New Study of Lobelia

Facts about Dr. Abbott

Some Good Points Obtained at the National Meeting

Polygonum punctatum

To Satisfy Thirst

Thuja in Enlarged Tonsils

Agrimony in Dysuria

Picric Acid for Burns

The Use of Cathartic Remedies

Suggestions from the Past

Baptisia

Miscellaneous

Offensive Perspiration, etc.

Locations

September 1908

Leading Articles

Vaccinium Myrtillus - C. D. Isenberg

Vincent's Angina - A. E. Gammage

Iris Versicolor in Psoriasis - W. E. Kinnett

Intra-Uterine Medication - J. M. Coleman

Cannabis Indica - J. B. Standlee

Crataegus - H. S. Lowrance

Brief Contributed Articles

Asepsin - J. S. Niederkorn

Chorea - J. M. Wells

Chorea - S. G. Arnold

Letters

Tetanus; Relapsing Typhoid - R. G. Cressman

Poliomyelitis - Louis H. Freedman

Chorea - D. H. Arthfrholt

Phytolacca Poisoning - F. H. Williams

Diet in Typhoid Fever - J. J. Pickett

Cold Extremities - Geo. F. Sauter

Lactation During Impregnation

Therapeutic Facts

Echinacea in Infection from Vaccination

Pinworms

Neuritis

Cobwebs of Fancy

Cold Extremities

Warts

A Liquid Splint

Chronic Metritis

When to Clean Teeth

Choice Gleanings

Reduction of Temperature in Children

Editorials

You and I

Superiority in Medicine

Psychotherapy (incl. "straight shots", lots of requests for info)

By Way of Illustration

Change in Microbe Theories

Reckless Eating

Enteroclysis

Helonias Dioica

Turpentine a Century Ago

Physicians' Temperance League

Treatment of Morphine Addiction

The True Action of Caulophyllum (Blue Cohosh)

Miscellaneous (incl. request for enlarged prostate and eppididymitis remedies)

Our Advertisers

Locations

October 1908

Leading Articles

Therapeutic Indications in Ophthalmic Practises - Charles H. Francis

Scarlet Fever - S. B. Strong

Phaseolus Vulgaris - Dr. Ramm, transl. C. D. Isenberg (kidney troubles, gout, diabetes)

Gall Stone - a Case - J. A. McDonnell

Quinine - Finley Ellingwood

To Introduce Fluid Foods when the Throat is Obstructed

Brief Contributed Articles

A Specific Indication for Cocculus Indicus - F. C. Haney

Mitchella as a Parturient - Drs. Niederkorn, Grigg, Sauter, Russell and Segraves

Recurrent Convulsions - S. M. Henry

A Specific Indication for Baptisia - F. C. Haney

Treatment of Diptheria by White Clay - transl. C. D. Isenberg

Tetanus

Fistulous Abscesses

Therapeutic Facts

Summer Diarrhoea

Hysterical Enuresis

Treatment of a Red Nose

A Chance for an Error in Diagnosis

Thuja and Echinacea in Tonsillitis

Compounds for Saturating Tampons

Belladonna in Whooping Cough

Choice Gleanings

The Indicated Remedy - Viburnum

Formic Acid in Tuberculosis

Acute Enteric Intussusception with Apparent Reduction by Irrigation

Editorials

A Journal of Therapeutic Advancement

Synthetic Monstrosities

The Treatment of Uterine Displacements

The Bromides Specifically Applied

An Excellent Formula When Indicated (Cystitis)

Hydrobromic Acid in Fevers

Sulphurous Acid in Exudative Disorders

Cascara Amarga in Syphilis

Pichi

Coto Bark

Geranium

Some Good Things About Capsicum

Books

The Psychic Element in Practice

Miscellaneous

November 1908

Leading Articles

Calendula Officinalis - R. D. Homsher

Treatment of Pelvic Infections - J. C. Mitchell

The Specific Treatment of Epilepsy - Drs. Thomas, Ross, Reid, Best, Watkins, Fish, Matthew and Gemmill

Case Notes on H. M. C. - C. W. Hunt

Preparatory Treatment During Pregnancy - J. C. Andrews

Brief Contributed Articles

Treatment of Sydenham's Chorea - John W. Knox

Straight Shots - I. V. Cole (Hamamelis in hemorrhoids; cactus in angina pectoris; chionanthus in diabetes; staphisagria in urethritis, gleet; trapped dick)

That "Crow" Cough - M. F. Bettencourt (bryonia and sanguinaria in dry cough)

Practical Pointers - Lous H. Freedman (echinacea in tetanus; thuja in throat troubles; iris in psoriasis)

Muscular Stiffness; Headaches - Lena R. Whitford

Ascites Prolonged for 40 Years - George E. Miller

Dioscorea Villosa - John Fearn

Cocaine in Gastralgia and Sciatica - A. C. Hewett

Diseases of the Foot: Corns - F. P. Davis

Some Safe Suggestions - N. M. Cook (collinsonia+eupat.purp. in cystitis; hamamelis in hemorrhoids; cactus in angina pectoris; vib.op. in painful menses; gelsemium in convulsions; turpentine in kidney ache)

Epidemic Conditions - M. Shadid

Therapeutic Facts

Mitchella to Prevent Abortion

Macrotys in Chorea

Lobelia as a Partus Accelerator

A Physiological Fact

Thuja in Chronic Enlargement of the Tonsils

An Antipyretic Formula

Trifolium; Lobelia

Belladonna for Hernia

Stiff Joints

A Formula for Stomatitis

Queries (cimicifuga in afterpains; diuretics)

A Toothache Remedy

Lobelia Inflata in Angina Pectoris

Lobelia Hypodermically

Cardiac Tonic (cactina pillets)

Editorials

More and More

Coming into Line

Appendicitis or Censure

Treat the Indications

Representative Remedies

Headaches of Nasal Origin

A Peculiar Effect of Potassum Iodide

Precocious Maturity

Oatmeal in Diabetes Melletus

The Youths Companion

A Good Location for a Sanitarium

A Work on Functional Nerve Diseases

Miscellaneous

December 1908

X-mas greeting

Leading Articles

Acute Cystitis - Finley Ellingwood

Treatment of Syphilis without Mercury - Drs. Bloyer, Farnum, Boskowitz, Russell, Whitford, E. H. King, Mundy, Kinnett, Munn, Hauss, and Baker

The Treatment of Septicemia after Confinement - F. J. Longfield

Treatment of Epilepsy - Bishop McMillen

Phaseolus Nana - A. M. Cushing

Brief Contributed Articles

Did Cactus Cure - Arthur V. Lyon

Echinacea - E. A. North

Chorea - H. L. Henderson

A Few Practical Suggestions - Pineles-Montagu

Heart Disorders after Paralysis - P. J. Stouffer

Nasal, Bronchial and Lung Troubles - J. L. Wolfe

Clinical Facts - M. Shadid (incontinence, palpitation, vomiting, tinea versicolor, constipation, head lice, herpes zoster)

Squamous Eczema - Lucian N. Yost

Pleuritis - Pineles-Montagu

Therapeutic Facts

Arnica after Confinement

Treatment for Erythema Multiform

Chorea; The Cough of Measles

Congestive Chill

Supra Orbital Headache

Aesculus, Collinsonia and Hamamelis: Hemorrhoids.

Tetanus, A Case

A Sore Nose

Antiseptic Dressing

Trifacial Neuralgia; Hot Flashes

A Peculiar Tongue

Practical Suggestions

Potassium Bichromate

An Effervescing Formula

Class of '93

Sigmoid Pain

Aconite Homeopathically Considered

Gleet

Editorials

For Our Success

As They Are Advancing

Clinical Study and Laboratory Methods

Echinacea in Impetigo

Passiflora in the Sleeplessness of Tuberculosis

Podophyllum in Bilious Headaches

Oil of Wintergreen

Boneset for Hiccough

Therapeutic Philosophy from Dr. Jos. R. Hawley

Massage of the Prostate

Write Specifically

Chloroform in Sunstroke

Books

Miscellaneous

Ellingwood's Therapeutist, Vol. 2, 1908, was edited by Finley Ellingwood M.D.